A new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the number of teen-aged and young adult women being medicated for ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) has risen by 344%. The CDCP noted that in 2006 about 1% of the female population were medicated for ADHD, but by 2015 the percentage had climbed to 4%.
The study focused on women between the ages of 15 and 44 who had private insurance. About 5% of the general population has ADHD. The disorder used to be diagnosed 10 times more often in men than women. Now, it appears that men and women have about equal rates of ADHD.
Most of the women in the study were of childbearing age, and yet there is almost no research on the safety of medications for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The report does not mention any research activity on this problem, nor does it explain why three has been this jump in cases of female ADHD.
[For more on this story by Gerald Schoenewolf, go to https://blogs.psychcentral.com...gic-myth-about-adhd/]
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